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A Minecraft tournament led to a DDoS attack mostly knocking Andorra offlineDDoS against the country’s only ISP to hit Twitch’s SquidCraft Games
DDoS against the country’s only ISP to hit Twitch’s SquidCraft Games
Andorra Telecom, the only Internet service provider in the tiny European principality, has suffered a series of cyber attacks disrupting Internet access nationwide—and supposedly it’s all over aMinecrafttournament. The Twitch Rivals tournament SquidCraft Games over the weekend included a number of players in Andorra, several of whom dropped out after their connections exploded. Trying to blast a whole country offline to ruin a Minecraft tournament sounds like the setup for a bad YA metaverse novel but may be a terrible vision of our future.
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Auron, who has 11.4 million followers on Twitch,tweetedthat the games must continue and so he was out. He expressed a hope that he was the target, and so announcing this would make the hacker(s?) leave his friends alone.
It’s unclear if the DDoS attacks were trying to screw with a specific streamer, or to disrupt the event more broadly, or to rig the competition. Considering that this is the Internet, I’d lean towards pettiness.
Auron and Rubiusreportedlyoffered a €10,000 bounty for finding those responsible.
